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Skriven 2007-03-09 13:52:43 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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Ärende: New Years gift!
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Hi Ruth,

-> As if Tom Clancy doesn't (one of my favorites).

 RH> I used to read his books, but gave up a few years ago.

He's not had any new ones out in a few years.

-> I'd say my body is more like 19 or 20.  The youngster trys to surface
-> occaisionally but gets surpressed most of the time.

 RH> My inner 6 year-old gets out and romps around sometimes, when allowed.
 RH>  Get her into the beading section of a store and she's trouble.

Fabric stores are my weakness. (G)  Tho, if we're at Wal-Mart, Steve can
usually find me anywhere in the fabric/craft section.  He's usually next
door in electronics.

->  RH> The sauerbraten may be the reason.(G)  I've never eaten a
 RH> commercially
->  RH> smoked pork chop.  Are they edible?
 RH> ->
-> Some are better than others; a bit of applesauce will help the lesser
-> quality ones.

 RH> I just made a pseudo-Asian soup out of smoked ham hocks.  No
 RH> applesauce needed; the star anise did nicely.  No recipe either - ham
 RH> hocks, vegetable stock, teriyaki sauce, star anise and garlic in the
 RH> base.  Took what little meat was on the hocks and added that back in
 RH> and threw in: tofu marinaded in soy sauce and ginger, chopped cabbage
 RH> and I forget what else.  I served it over boiled udon.  It got a
 RH> little too salty for me, but pretty good otherwise.

I suspect I'd cut down on the salty ingredients a bit but otherwise it
sounds good. The sauerbraten turned out really good, even starting it
about an hour later than I wanted to (had forgotten I had a
pulmonologist appointment at the time I wanted to start cooking so it
was delayed until I got home from that).  I used an eye round roast,
marinaded it about 3 1/2 days and did it in the cast iron dutch oven vs
my usual crock pot.  I made a gingersnap gravy this time and heated
(jarred) red cabbage while Steve made whole wheat spaezele.  We used the
pasta cooker for the spaezele--worked OK but lost some in the bigger
holes than the ricer/spaezele maker produced.  One thing that did work
quite well was the immersion blender (outboard boat motor) to smooth out
the gravy.  The whole meal was melt in your mouth good!  For dessert we
split the last lebkuchen. (G)

->  RH> Hmmm- chocolate, Girl Scout cookies.  No wonder you keep him
 RH> around!

-> Too hard to break in a new one at this point.

 RH> There is that.  Unlike cars, men don't fall apart just as you finally
 RH> have them broken in.  Well, most of the time....

He's holding up a lot better than I am.

-> And the time it took to ship stuff over.

 RH> And conditions in the containers they were shipped in.

Very much so!

->  RH> It's not Christmas without it here.

-> I'd say the waffle cookies are "Christmas" around here thanks to my half
-> Italian husband.

 RH> Pizzele?  That's one I've never done.  Vanilla, almond or chocolate?
 RH> Or is the answer to that one "yes"?  Here it's stollen, lebkuchen, and

Chocolate, orange/anise and some almond but mostly the orange/anise. We
have electric irons that makes 2 cookies, 3 (smaller) and a one at a
time on the stove top so they can really be cranked out in quantitiy.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly@earthlink.net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


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